Respondents to the children and young people’s (CYP) section of the survey, by selected individual characteristics. Children and Young People’s Inpatient Survey, England, 2014

Individual characteristics

N

CYP responses (%)

Parent responses (%)

Joint response (%)

Overall

6204

57.9

13.7

28.4

Male

3247

53.6

15.2

31.2

Female

2957

62.6***

12.0

25.4

8–11 years

2959

52.1

16.6

31.3

12–15 years

3245

63.1***

11.1

25.8

Any long-standing condition

1906

50.4

20.8

28.8

No long-standing condition

3341

62.7***

9.4

27.9

1–3 admissions

5467

58.9

13.3

27.9

4 or more admissions

416

52.6*

17.1

30.3

White

5090

60.4

12.1

27.5

Asian/British Asian

458

42.8***

23.4

33.8

Black/Black British

205

46.8***

16.6

36.6

Mixed/other/not known

450

50.0***

20.9

29.1

Inpatient 1

2471

60.3

13.2

26.5

Day case

3732

56.4**

14.0

29.6

Children’s ward

5569

57.9

13.9

28.2

Adolescent ward

342

64.0

9.9

26.0

Adult ward 205

88

52.3

17.0

30.7

Any procedure

4172

59.3

12.4

28.3

No procedure 84

1948

55.4**

16.3

28.3

Elective admission 1

3350

57.4

13.9

28.7

Emergency admission

2853

58.5

13.4

28.1

Column categories are based on responses to the item in the parent section of the survey ‘Who was the main person who answered the questions in the children and young people ' s section of the questionnaire?’

Where the proportion of CYP who responded independently differs significantly from the reference group (eg, females differ to males), this is indicated by *P<0·05, **P<0·01, ***P<0·001.

Where P values were between 0.001 and 0.05, exact values were as follows: 1–3 vs 4 or more admissions P=0.013; inpatient vs day case P=0.002; any vs no procedure P=0.004.

Row categories follow response options to each question in the survey.

Age, sex, ethnicity, type of admission were drawn from hospital records and had negligible missing data. Other characteristics were drawn from parent/carer responses, resulting in the following number of missing responses: presence of long-standing condition=957 (15.4%); any procedure=84 (1.4%); number of admissions=321 (5.2%); ward type=205 (3.3%).